October 6, 2004
NYC Tap Water Might Not Be Safe
Coming out of our Beltway blog's neigborhood, the Washington Post reports that New York City might have been manipulated results of drinking water tests that measure lead levels. NYC isn't the only city that might have falsified results - Philadelphia, Boston, Providence, RI, and Portland, OR, are also noted. This is pretty disturbing, because if you're anything like Gothamist, we tend to opt for tap water when we're at restaurants. And we're all about the tap water at home, though with a Brita filter, which apparently does help filter out the lead. Still, we've been bragging about how NYC tap water is amongst the best in the country, especially after the city's pronouncement our water was safe last December, and now this?
You can learn more about NYC's drinking water quality from the DEP, but given this new information, who knows how accurate it is. An FDA article about whether bottled water is better than tap, and the NRDC on grading tap water in US cities (NYC isn't included). Plus DCist on DC's these tap water woes.
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People still drink tap water these days? I thought everyone had switched to bottled. By the way if you
Finally the truth comes out about NYC tap water!!!
I never believed it for a second-- had been told since I moved here about the water being so great-- that the funky taste was due to the old pipes--
Face it- you can't live in a city as old as NYC without dealing with environmental repercussions-- messed up water being one of them.
Sigh. New York City Tap water is king. It comes from Upstate New York. How the heck can the age of the city and its environmental reprecussions affect water that does not come anywhere near it.
Out of Towners, there is no glass of water from the Tap that is better the new york city. I don't know what is this funky taste you describe? I believe you mean clean and tasty.
Sounds like jealousy to me. DC just can't match our water.
Get a friggin' Britta mofos.
G.